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  19         <h3>Version 0.95.3 released</h3>
  20           <p> Window Maker 0.95.3 was released on May 16th 2012. This release fixes a regression
  21           which would cause more than one instance of an application to start (under some circunstances) when using menu
  22           shortcuts. The window maximization procedures now have a more intuitive behavior with respect to remembering
  23           the old geometry and going back to it. Furthermore, there are some other small fixes and cleanups.</p>
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  25           <h3>Version 0.95.2 released</h3>
  26           <p> Window Maker 0.95.2 was released on February 14th 2012, and it contains just a few
  27           commits on top of 0.95.1. They were necessary to fix a few issues like 'make dist' not compiling.
  28           Furthermore a few more code cleanups slipped in.</p>
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  30
  31           <h3>Version 0.95.1 released</h3>
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  33           <p>Window Maker 0.95.1 was released on January 29th 2012.</p>
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  35           <p>The last official Window Maker release was version 0.92.0 from 2005, and version 0.95.1 contains many bug fixes and
  36           also a few new features.</p>
  37
  38           <h3>New features and highlights</h3>
  39
  40           <p>The following list is incomplete, but should give a first-order approximation to the new features in this release.
  41           For the truly curious among you, reading through <code>git log</code> is the only complete source of information.</p>
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  43           <ul>
  44             <li>
  45               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/6924454836b3a9432def2749f093ea060ac82e97">Left Half / Right
  46               Half Maximize</a>.</p>
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  49             <li>
  50               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/cf62d1591f5aef1e6760a8c0881a6de97ae26e92">Maximus: tiled
  51               maximization</a>. Maximizes a window such that it occupies the largest area without overlapping others.</p>
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  54             <li>
  55               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a063338175511c4e6af211cef9f2c8a555d7cb44">New mouse-resizing
  56               functionality</a>. Windows can now be resized vertically (horizontally) using MOD+Wheel (CTRL+Wheel).</p>
  57             </li>
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  59             <li>
  60               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/05720d97076ffc1569e50d904b998ec99c3d3d4e">History and TAB
  61               completion in dialogs</a>. To use this new functionality in your old WMRootMenu, replace %a by %A in the relevant
  62               entry. It will look like this <code>(Run..., SHEXEC, "%A(Run, Type command:)")</code>. Or use
  63               <code>wmgenmenu</code> to generate a new menu.</p>
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  66             <li>
  67               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a257e16593bb471662ce46f65d489c2ba6d87813">Bouncing appicon
  68               effect</a>.</p>
  69             </li>
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  71             <li>
  72               <p>New applications (<a href=
  73               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/1861880239634774bf898175a3155b7c7cd9b59c">wmgenmenu</a> and wmmenugen)
  74               to generate the root menu automatically by looking which applications you have on your $PATH. Translations to
  75               German, <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/077a2eaa71623421eaffc234c30e6d40a52f0220">Spanish and
  76               French</a> of menus generated by wmgenmenu.</p>
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  79             <li>
  80               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/56d856878743ec2d3b8d98ab6a0b61a6b2c99129">Automatic detection
  81               of configuration changes</a>. Linux users whose kernel supports the <a href=
  82               "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify">inotify</a> mechanism have their configuration changes detected
  83               automatically without polling, reducing the number of CPU wakeups.</p>
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  86             <li>
  87               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/9318a7f42870753bd6b8c306573936369aa819f4">Improved dockapp
  88               recognition.</a></p>
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  91             <li>
  92               <p>And many trivial things which reduce little annoyances one might have. For example, an option was added to
  93               control whether or not Window Maker should do <a href=
  94               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/d6c134f420bfa1cd6b6a9474d01548933b559901">automatic workspace
  95               switching</a> to satisfy a focus request from a window located in another workspace.</p>
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  98             <li>
  99               <p>(For developers). The <a href=
 100               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/442e3876c6e5a78c6ed385ec204647553f45c168">addition</a> of a debian/
 101               folder which allows the creation of a debian package for wmaker using the git sources.</p>
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 104             <li>
 105               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/b6689a0108fd06ba4d7bf22b789b3de531c2ad70">Added keyboard
 106               shortcut to uncover/cover the dock</a>.</p>
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 109             <li>
 110               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/18408fff93468c533bf4aef3ce6c9808b415adde">Mac OS X-style
 111               window cycling</a>.</p>
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 114             <li>
 115               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c201e1612c1798106ccc2f806669a90b0bbb7a19">Preliminary XRandR
 116               support</a> (needs a bit more work to be bug-free; not compiled in by default. Use --enable-xrandr if you want to
 117               test it).</p>
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 120
 121           <h3>Bug fixes</h3>
 122
 123           <p>Window Maker 0.92.0 was already very stable, but many bugs were fixed in this release. A <strong>very</strong>
 124           incomplete list is given below, and as time permits it will be updated (including links to the commits) in the future.
 125           But the message now is that if you don't like bugs, use version 0.95.1.</p>
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 127           <ul>
 128             <li>
 129               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/37829a7c60ca09eb47d4d82b00070f6f6c0fb277">Fix loading saved
 130               states on 64-bit systems</a></p>
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 133             <li>
 134               <p>Fix to avoid a segfault when creating more than 81 workspaces, as reported on youtube <a href=
 135               "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNJZvKwmhE">here</a>.</p>
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 138             <li>
 139               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c91bb1ba1360006c568db37438779e525868cf17">Periodic focus
 140               bug</a>.</p>
 141             </li>
 142           </ul>
 143
 144           <h3>Summary of changes</h3>
 145
 146           <p>A lot of effort was put into cleaning up the code, with lots of code removal and tidying things up. The following
 147           output should give you an idea of the development in the last cycle:</p>
 148           <pre>
 149 git diff --shortstat wmaker-0.92.0+..wmaker-0.95.1
 150  592 files changed, 118361 insertions(+), 133342 deletions(-)
 151 git diff --shortstat 688a56e8ab67b..wmaker-0.95.1
 152  566 files changed, 37676 insertions(+), 41817 deletions(-)
 153 </pre>The first shortstat is really everything, including the (huge) patch generated in this <a href=
 154 "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/688a56e8ab67b56550e2874d9d7423f0d435bfd9">commit</a> from 2009, which changed the old
 155 sources to the linux kernel coding style. The second shortstat contains the summary of development afterwards -- but included is
 156 the addition of a debian folder with files summing around ~20k lines. The full diffstat for the second command can be seen
 157 <a href="fulldiffstat.php">here</a>.
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